{"id":696,"date":"2016-07-19T11:27:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T19:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2016-07-19T11:29:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T19:29:15","slug":"relief-in-sight-for-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/relief-in-sight-for-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief in sight for whales!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo from: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, some relief for the whales is in sight! It was just ruled that the sonar approved for use by the US Navy violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act, according to a\u00a0San Francisco federal appeals court. This ruling is a major victory for marine mammals, and for the Marine Mammal Protection Act that protects them. The\u00a0Navy\u2019s loud, powerful, low-frequency sonar \u00a0travels hundreds of miles underwater, impacting many marine mammal species such as whales, affecting their ability to communicate, feed, and reproduce.\u00a0This new July 2016 ruling\u00a0reversed a lower court decision upholding approval granted in 2012 for the Navy to use low-frequency sonar for training, testing and routine operations.\u00a0The 2012 rules adopted by the National Marine Fisheries Service permitted Navy sonar use to affect whales and\u00a0other marine mammals.<\/p>\n

Now the Navy will have to re-evaluate\u00a0how they use sonar during peacetime to be less disturbing to marine mammals, let’s hope\u00a0this means that things\u00a0will quiet down for the great giants of the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally, some relief for the whales is in sight! It was just ruled that the sonar approved for use by the US Navy violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act, according to a\u00a0San Francisco federal appeals court. This ruling is a major victory for marine mammals, and for the Marine Mammal Protection Act that protects them. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}